It’s been a few of those weeks where the days flow together, and although you’ve been busy the whole time, you can look back on it and not really feel like you did anything. That makes it difficult to record things. This will be a potpourri entry.

The students are back. My quiet, cozy college town got crazy again. In the last week, I’ve had more support requests at work than I can remember (for a spring semester,) and the killer is most of them don’t directly involve me. I’m getting contacts for things like spam and printing and passwords when they should really be going to someone else (or, better, getting answered on a webpage.) To show how busy I’ve been, my new desktop and laptop for work came in Friday and I didn’t even have the chance to look at the boxes. Setting up those machines will be a next week project. (Pre-answer, Fedora Core 3 and WinXPSP2 … and if you ask me which is which, you haven’t heard my rant on people who put linux on a laptop.)

The Illini have bettered their season to 19-and-oh, defeating every opponent so far, even if it wasn’t always pretty. Thursday was the closest win yet against Iowa in Champaign — a game that went into OT before the Illini pulled away. Tuesday, we have our toughest road game of the season… Going to Madison. The Badgers haven’t lost the last 38 games at home. The Illini haven’t lost the last 19 games this season. I have faith in our team, but Wisconsin’s no push over and they are going to be tough to squelch up in Madison. I wish I could be there to see this game. That’s the thing about streaks…. they’re only good until someone ends them. The good news is Kansas’s undefeated streak was ended this weekend with an embarassing loss to Villanova. I know we won’t go through the season loss-less, and I’m glad to see Kansas go first.

Campus parking notified me I came up on the waiting list for the parking lot just south of Siebel Center (named B2, thus the title of this post.) I’ve been on that list since I started full time a few years ago. It’s a small lot and there’s not that much turnover, so it took a while. But now that I’m in the parking deck, I think I’m going to stay there. The lot is cool because it’s closer and I could see my car from my office window. But it’s a rock lot outside. The deck is better because it’s covered (great for snow and ice handling,) but it’s a half block away. What do you think, faithful readers?

Went to a doctor this week to get my allergies/phelgm problem looked at. Turns out, it’s not an allergy but a gland problem on one-half of my face that’s swollen up my throat and is messing with my saliva process. I thought I was just gaining weight in the neck, but those are actually swollen glands. Been like that for a while. My doc referred me to an ear nose and throat guy, but I’m an educated person; I prefer to call him a otolaryngologist. Last time I was in Christie, I was helping Tony get his molars ripped out and the people were nice enough. I’ll let you know how that goes. My guess is I’ll get some antibiotics, and I’ll finally be able to finish a meal without gagging.

I’ve been trying to burn through my Netflix movies, since my queue has grown over 120 movies and with TV and basketball being on, I don’t watch enough DVDs. I “sold” one of my spots to Eric, so he’s got his own queue now and is loading it with his choice of sucky movies. Speaking of sucky movies, don’t bother seeing Three Kings. Elf was good.

In other news, Johnny Carson passed away today. I wish him a sincere and heart-felt goodnight.